LESIA UKRAINKA: SPIRIT AND BODY (LINGUISTIC RECEPTION OF SPIRITUAL AND BODY MODES IN THE POETRY OF LESIA UKRAINKA)

Olena MALENKO,
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Full Professor, Head of the Ukrainian Studies Department, H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University; 169-B ap. 51 Tractorobudivnykiv Ave., Kharkiv, 61129, Ukraine

E-mail: malenalingva@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4753-0036

Heading: To the 150-th anniversary of the birthday of Lesia Ukrainka
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article is a linguistic attempt to reconsider the traditional image of Lesіa Ukrainka as first of all a courageous and indomitable person. The priorities of the writer’s life in the traditional reception are strong spirit, will, courage, steadfastness. We want to present a different image of the writer – emotionally vulnerable, sensual, life-loving, passionate nature. She perceives the world not only spirit, but first of all the body as the first attribute of life, biological existence. We received all the information necessary for semantic decoding in the linguistic, in particular lexical and grammatical organization of Lesіa Ukrainka’s poetic texts. We used not only linguistic-stylistic, contextual, interpretive analysis of contexts, but also the bodily-mimetic method, which is relevant in modern literary criticism. The follower of this method is the Ukrainian literary critic Felix Steinbuk, his work became the theoretical basis for the analysis of linguistic material. We placed special emphasis on the poetic representation of the categories of corporeality in the writer’s texts: ontological (life, heart) and epistemological categories (sight, eye; hearing, voice). After conducting research in the selected strategies, we proposed the image of another Lesіa Ukrainka, which to some extent opposes the canonical versions. We have actualized in this image not the power of the spirit, but the powerful power of the body, hence the vital energy, the love of life, the manifestation of its pathos.

Keywords: Lesіa Ukrainka, body-mimetic method, categories of corporeality, lexical-grammatical resource, interpretation of author’s meanings.

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